Concord, Mass.
1914
March 19
[March 19, 1914]

Birds extremely scarce
No migrants here yet

  Yesterday [March 18, 1914] (a stormy day) I saw 5 Juncos, 2 Crows and a
cock Pheasant. To-day (clear & cold with violent N.W. [northwest] wind)
I noted 1 Junco, 2 Crows, a cock Pheasant and some
Lesser Redpolls (heard in Birch Field). This meagre list
would seem to indicate that birds are exceedingly scarce
here now and that few, if any, migrants have arrived, as
yet, from further south.

Partridge killed & eaten by Fox.

  In Birch Field I found to-day most of the feathers
of a hen Partridge among sweet fern in an opening where
the sun had melted the snow. A Fox had evidently killed
the bird & eaten her on the spot, after biting off her wing
& tail feather. It must have happened weeks ago for the
feathers were frozen together in a compact mass. The Partridge
was probably sleeping under deep snow when caught.

Gray Squirrel.

  A Gray Squirrel among very slender pendant twigs in
the top of a tall elm, swaying to & fro in the violent wind
and looking precisely like an Oriole's nest.